I love the Rain Dog in the Fine Arts building on south Michigan for the coffee and the enormous amounts of natural light and the copies of Wire and The Nation there for the reading.

And The Bourgeois Pig on Fullerton at Lincoln/Fullteron/Halsted, pronounced by its former manager to rhyme with 'gorgeous', because it's an old house and they have cheap-coffee happy hour.

(P.S. Tim, the Vogue? I saw you guys at the OK Hotel in '91.)

There's a great coffee shop on 2550 N. Clyborn, called Starbucks.
The best, most addicting coffee I've ever had.
They have a few others if you don't live near this one.

There's one on 161 North Clark Street,

or try the one on 180 N. LaSalle St,

or at 111 W Washington St,

or 66 West Washington Street.

This one isn't bad if you work in the Loop. 70 W Madison St,

or this one 40 W Lake Street,

or here 303 West Madison,

or at 150 N Wacker,

or 111 N. State St,

or try the one at 111 N. State St,

or 227 W. Monroe,

or 470 MERCHANDISE MART - right off the river.

This one is cool, 25 E Washington Blvd,

and this one 200 W. Adams,

or 105 W. Adams,

or at 100 S. Wacker Drive,

or 35 E. Wacker Dr,

or this one 231 S LaSalle St,

or here, at 400 W. Madison,

or 10 S Riverside Plaza.

If you live up north, the Starbucks at 2063 N. Clark is good too.

These aren't bad either, at 1001 W. Armitage,

and 2200 N. Halsted,

and at 2275 North Lincoln Ave,

or here 1588 N. Milwaukee Ave,

here 2200 N. Clybourn,

here 2475 N. Lincoln,

this one too 2525 1/2 N Clark St,

or this one 1157 W. Wrightwood,

or this spot 617 W. Diversey Pkwy,

and at 2454 Ashland Ave,

and 1000-1002 W. Diversey Ave (This is a big one).

Try the one at 1700 W. Diversey Parkway,

or at 3184 N. Clark St,

or 3045 Greenview,

or a little west at 2656 N. Elston Ave,

or here 3358 N. Broadway,

here 3359 N. Southport,

here too 3356 N. Lincoln Ave.,

or here 2543 N. California,

and here for you Cubs fans 1023-1025 W. Addison St.

Oh, yeah... I think there's another one here 2159 W. Belmont Ave.

and here 3845 N. Broadway,

and here 3400 N. Western Ave.

Oh, I forgot: Atomix, at Chicago and Damen.

Intelligentsia Coffee. They roast their coffee here in Chicago. The head roaster for Intelligentsia, Caleb Mayhall, just happens to be the drummer in my band. So, he often brings some just roasted samples over. He also provides fresh coffee for long recording secessions. Their director of training, Ellie, also happens to be one of the 2nd basemen on our softball team. She's swell! So my unbiased opinion is to drink Intelligentsia Coffee. ~ting~


The Coffee and Tea Exchange is another nice one. They provide the coffee for Tre Kronor for all of you who love quiche.